{"id":5649,"date":"2020-12-10T14:03:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T19:03:10","slug":"native-sun-news-today-tribal-history-preserved-at-buffalo-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/12\/10\/native-sun-news-today-tribal-history-preserved-at-buffalo-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Tribal history preserved at Buffalo Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Vore Buffalo Jump is located outside of Sundance, Wyoming, not far from the state’s eastern border with South Dakota. Photo courtesy Jaqueline Wyatt<\/figcaption><\/div><\/div>\r\n
Cheyenne memories: The Buffalo Jump<\/div>\r\n
Centuries of Buffalo Jump hunting documented<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, December 10, 2020<\/div>\r\n
By Clara Caufield<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Correspondent<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nThe memories and oral history knowledge of John Stands In Timber, Northern Cheyenne tribal historian and elder, were captured in Cheyenne Memories<\/em><\/a>, Margot Liberty, 1972. These memories painstakingly collected over the years are considered highly accurate.\t\r\n

<\/p>\r\nOne of the memories came from Stands In Timbers\u2019 grandparents who told how they as children hunted buffalo in a \u201cbig hole\u201d near present day Sundance, Wyoming. This could very well refer to the Vore Buffalo Jump<\/a> (VBJ) which is near Sundance and between Devil\u2019s Tower and the Black Hills, then a highly traveled route for many Plains Tribes, including the Northern Cheyenne. The VBJ, a historic and archaeological site documents that various Plains Tribes used this location and method of harvesting buffalo for about three centuries.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nRecently, this writer was invited for a personal tour, meeting with Vore Foundation Board members Glenn Wyatt, Theodore \u201cTed\u201d Vore, Dr. Richard Littlebear and Dr. Jacqueline Wyatt, Director.\r\n

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Vore Buffalo Jump: Aerial View<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nGlenn Wyatt grew up in Pine Ridge because his father M.T. \u201cJack\u201d Wyatt was a Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent stationed there. Ted Vore is the treasurer, representing the Vore family on the non-profit Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation (VBJF). \r\n

<\/p>\r\nDr. Littlebear, Northern Cheyenne, president of Chief Dull Knife Memorial College, like other advisors serves on a volunteer non-paid basis. Other Board and Advisory members include archaeologists, teachers, area representatives and Vore family members.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThe Vore Buffalo Jump is a part of our history which should be told and shared with the world,\u201d Dr. Littlebear emphasized. \u201cIt\u2019s right in our back yard \u2013 the heart of our ancestral lands, easily accessible to educators, students from Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. This amazing site is visited by people from around the globe.\u201d\r\n

<\/p>\r\n In addition, I participated in a virtual learning session, prepared by Jacqueline Wyatt who is the VBJF Board President. The learning tool is excellent, beginning with a re-enactment of the dangerous and labor-intensive method of harvesting buffalo through a jump, taken from a movie Into the West. \t\r\n

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